So at the show in Lansing, I attended a rather good presentation on 'feeding your tank', in other words, feeding not just your fish and inverts, but your LPS & SPS corals as well. I was interested to learn that the polyps on SPS corals are kind of like 'spear hooks', and basically shoot out, and nab things like Zooplankton, and drag them in for the coral to feed on.

I started adding some phytoplankton yesterday, also dosed today; figured that's why some of my amphipods are dying, they had nothing to eat.

Looking around, I see basically two types of products:

One, would be dosing/adding phytoplankton and zooplankton individually as needed in the tank, the other would be something like 'Reef Snow' or 'Marine Snow' as the single component.

Right now I have one acro, an acanthophylia, scoly, favia, montipora, plate coral, ricodera, 2 zoo's, a torch coral, and a few heads of an acan lord colony, tank is just over 2 months old.

I'm planning to get quite a few more SPS corals once I get dosing under control and a better grasp of it, a clam, and probably some more LPS too and maybe some more zoo's as well.

Just wondering if people find more success with the Marine/Reef Snow, or independently adding.

Also, I'm presuming if I'm going to be doing this, I ought to remove my filter socks?

Thoughts, opinions, anecdotes, free samples (haha), all welcome. Thanks in advance!